Running GPX on Raspberry Pi with Octoprint

[Guido van Alphen]

I'm looking to try and use Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi - so I've got OctoPi running (instructions here) ....but in order to  print to my Markerbot I do need to get X3G output...

This is where GPX could / should come in.

Any one any experiences in setting this up?

Would be a very cool set up!

I saw a few people looking into this some time ago, but no mention of a successful implementation. See: https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/issues/332 and https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/issues/61

I do realize both Laird, Dan and Jetguy and others have mentioned / responded on earlier mentions of Octoprint for Makerbot and back then it was decided as not a good path due to the USB comms problems.

But in the newer firmware's (thanks to Dan and Jetty)  I think that argument (and bug) is now gone.....

I'm also testing / looking at http://www.printtopeer.com/ and https://www.botqueue.com/ and http://www.fabsecure.com/ but I feel only the first is getting there.

Perhaps it is even possible to run my copy of Simplify3D on the Raspberry Pi - which would than allow me to keep my workflow without the hassle of different computers and sdcards. Although this doesn't look very promising...

I do know of the Toshiba wireless SD Card solution, but I would like to offload processing and monitoring as well.

Any comments much appreciated!  -

Cheers, Guido

[Guido van Alphen]

I guess I need to mention some nice progress in this fork ;-) Thanks Jared!

Unfortunately I looks like there's no progress currently.

It seems like quite a lot of work went into this already, and it seems a combination with FlashAir is appropriate as well..

I'm trying to get it up and running on my RPI.

Cheers, Guido

[Laird Popkin]

My theory is that I'd use GPX to write an X3G file to a WiFi SD card (Toshiba FlashAir) but I got committed to other projects (http://enablingthefuture.org) so I haven't gotten back to OctoPrint/MAkerbot. But I'm hoping that with all of the Makerbot clones selling now that it's still worth doing.

Has anyone gotten gpx running on the Pi to generate x3g files? If so, the rest should be easy...  :-)

- LP

[Mark Walker]

I've done it now.  Almost a year later.

[Guido van Alphen]

Hi Mark,

I've seen your progress - impressive!

I'm on the verge to install and utilize your work shortly - thank you very much, much appreciated!

Kind Regards, Guido